"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
-Eugene V. Debs
Inspired by cicadas, Carpathian Mountain music, Aka Pygmy music, ideas of Derrick Jensen and of Michel Waisvisz, Charlie Parker, Maceo Parker, Evan Parker. Henry Threadgill, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Eddie Harris, Cannonball Adderly, Ivo Papasov, Bartok, Beethoven and Bach, Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Sibelius, Debussy, Chopin, Holst, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, Carla Bley, Funkadelic, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Sonny Sharrock, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Tom Waits, KRS-1, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Public Enemy and Mr. Busta Rhymes, Autechre, Marek Choloniewski, Philip Jeck, Tortoise, Radiohead, John Bonham, Rage Against the Machine. Taj Mahal, Low, Emma Goldman, Albert Camus, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Henry David Thoreau, Noam Chomsky, Zygmunt Bauman, E.E. Cummings, George Carlin and Berke Breathed.
I have played saxophone since before some of you were born. I also play farfisa organ, tape recorders, drums, and voice. I compose acoustic, electronic, and electroacoustic music with manuscript paper and/or a computer, and write texts and make videos and installations critical of industrial civilization's death grip on the rest of the planet.
I was born in Brooklyn in 1976 and grew up in the suburbs. I relocated to Europe in 1999 and lived in Poland and The Netherlands until 2009, when I moved to New York. I did time in academia in Denton Texas, Ithaca New York, London, Krakow and The Hague. I was once a Fulbright Scholar, it was nice.
I am an improviser, and my approach to the saxophone has as much to do with tradtional music from places that still have such a thing as it does with my years playing in funk and dixieland bands. Electronic and industrial sound, avant-gardisms, and the 20th century classical canon are also important influences. I perform solo and in collaboration with a wonderful and undefined network of inspiring people. I curated a creative music concert series at <>tag in The Hague for four wonderful seasons. Now I lead a band in the state of New York called Keir Neuringer's Other People.
There's other stuff about and by me here and here.
lokai + B.Breuer at the rhiz - cd/lp presentation thrill jockey 219 / location: Rhiz / Vienna / Austria / date: 18.11.2009 / time: 21.30 / line up: Florian Kmet (git) / Stefan Németh (synthi, sampler) + special guest: Bernhard Breuer (drums) / / / new Video by machfeld: http://www.machfeld.net/film/banska/mov.html link to lokai at Thrill Jockey: http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=10091
Encuentro Internacional de Arte Sonoro TSONAMI Buenos Aires 2009 Una ola de diversidad sonora contemporánea llega a Buenos Aires nuevamente
Del 20 al 25 de octubre en el Centro Cultural Recoleta de la ciudad de Buenos Aires tendrá lugar una muestra de las más diversas expresiones sonoras de la escena contemporánea en la 2ª edición del Encuentro Internacional de Arte Sonoro Tsonami Buenos Aires 2009
8 conciertos, performances, obras multimedia y una exposición permanente de Instalaciones Sonoras, convergiendo así trabajos de artistas Nacionales e Internacionales de diversas estéticas y trayectorias que toman el trabajo del sonido como eje principal.
El Encuentro de Arte Sonoro TSONAMI es una plataforma Independiente, de difusión del trabajo de artistas Latinoamericanos y de intercambio con producciones del resto del mundo vinculadas a las Artes Sonoras. TSONAMI es además un punto de encuentro transdisciplinario en torno al arte contemporáneo y la temática del sonido.
ENTRADA LIBRE Y GRATUITA A TODAS LAS ACTIVIDADES Descarga la programación aquí http://www.tsonami.com.ar/images/programacion.pdf
Hello Keir, Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends! We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too. We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy. Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other. We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large. What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology! Thom & Lorry Gambino New York, New York
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